Movie
The Bookshop
20171h 50m6.5 / 10
A town without a bookshop is no town at all.
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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Synopsis
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
More about The Bookshop
Cast
Emily MortimerFlorence Green
Bill NighyMr. Brundish
Patricia ClarksonViolet Gamart
James LanceMilo North
Hunter TremayneMr. Keble
Honor KneafseyChristine
Frances BarberJessie Welford
Reg WilsonGeneral GamartCredits
- Directed by
- Isabel Coixet
- Written by
- Isabel Coixet, Penelope Fitzgerald
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $5.4M
- Box office
- $12.1M
Production
- Zephyr FilmsUnited Kingdom
A Contracorriente FilmsSpain
Diagonal TVSpain
Themes
1950sbased on novel or bookbookshopshopkeepersmall townsuffolk, england
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